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The Committee of this House appointed on Wednesday last to meet a Committee of the Council to draw up an Address to His Majesty, came inand reported to the House the Result of their Conference; which was readas follows, viz.: ー
Bermuda.
At a Committee of Council and Assembly appointed by both Houses, held at the House of Copeland Stiles, Esqr., on Thursday and Friday, 27th and 28th of June, 1776...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr. Robinson has the Honour, by Lord Norths Order, to transmit to His Majesty, the Dispatches which have this Day been received from General Howe, and to add that a Fleet of Victuallers sailed from Cork under the Convoy of the Greyhound Man of War, on the 4th of April for Boston, besides the several Victuallers which went the latter End of last year and which have been drove off the Coast of...
Date: 4 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lord Sandwich has the pleasure to forward to your Majesty the dispatches & private letters which are just brought to him by Lieutenant Fooks of the Lizard.
Mr Fooks is with the Messenger that is charged with these dispatches, in case your Majesty should chuse to ask him any question.
Mr Fooks met the Carysfort & Pearl with the Troops from Ireland about 7 Leagues below Quebec on the night...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lord Sandwich allso desires to inform your Majesty that the Ordnance Board (as he is informed by Mr Wilkinson the Agent for transports) recieved an anonimous letter to the same purpose as that written to Captain [Archibald] Dickson,2 before the Hope Storeship sailed from Portsmouth; in consequence of which they sent orders that the passenger who had been mentioned as in connection with...
Date: 10 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Genl Clinton arrived at Cape Fear on the 12th of Match, & on the 21st of July Lord George Germain received a Dispatch from him dated in Cape Fear River the 3d May, on which day the Bristol with the rest of The King's Ships arrived there, many of the Transports having got in a few days before.
In this Dispatch General Clinton observes, that had the embarkation taken place at the time appointed...
Date: 21 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
On the 21st of August 1776, Lord George Germain received another Dispatch from Genl Clinton, dated July 8th in which he says that it appeared by Letters, which he had recd from Genl. Howe that he was not expected or called upon for any immediate assistance on the opening of the Campaign. That he [had] not named either the time or place of joining him, but rather seemed, on the contrary, to...
Date: 22 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lord Sandwich has the honour to inform your Majesty that finding no trace of the Glasgow transport in this office, (except one of that name that could not possibly be with Sir Peter Parker) he desired Sir Hugh Palliser to write to Captain Hope for what information he could give relative to the vessel that was taken by the Rebels in Carolina.
Lord Sandwich takes the liberty to trouble your Majesty...
Date: 6 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr Roberts, who was charged with these Dispatches,2 says, that a day or two before he left Sandy Hook, vizt the 20th of August, the Ships which were in the North River returned to the Fleet, having been almost constantly attacked with Gun-Boats &c, & having expended almost all their ammunition ー The Rebels had nearly effected the stopping the Passage of the River to prevent the...
Date: 29 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A general Press without delay.
The Guardships to be manned to their War Establishment.
The Guardships at Chatham & Plymouth to proceed immediately to Spithead.
The 12 Ships of the Line that are ready to recieve men to be put into Commission.
More Ships to be got in readiness to recieve men.
Shipwrights to work extra.
To encrease the number of Shipwrights and Ropemakers
Navy Board to com pleat...
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Your Majesty will allso find in the box the state of men raised last week, and some Marine Commissions for your Royal Signature. Your Majesty probably has allready seen the minute of the resolution taken by the Committee of your servants, relative to the refusal of the Lord Mayor to back the Press Warrants, Lord Sandwich however ventures to send it. at that meeting the Attorney &...
Date: 21 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Lord North has received the honour of his Majesty's note. Lord Sandwich, who is just gone to London, has in his possession a letter sent last night from Bushy, which Lord North received from Mr. Robinson. It is from L'Orient, & confirms the report of the French Frigates being appointed to convoy the American Ships out of the Bay. From hence it appears that there is such a report in France,...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . In respect to the Ships to be sent to Lord Howe, as the requisitions made by General Howe cou'd not be complied with, His Lordship [Lord North] thought it became more necessary to do what was in the Power of this Country, and to give Lord Howe, the Ships he asked; and Lord North thought the Cabinet had advised it in fact, but by having given Lord Howe One Ship of 74 Guns & 600d Men,...
Date: 14 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Lord Sandwich apprehends that your Majesty wishes that General Burgoyne should go to Canada with as little delay as possible, if he goes in the Apollo, as she must take a convoy with her, some time must be lost in her passage; and as she is still at Plymouth & not quite ready for sea, it does not seem probable that she will be able to sail from Spithead before the end of the month.
The...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
It is with the most profound respect, that the under-signed Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of their High Mightinesses, in consequence of the orders which he hath received, hath the honour to represent to your Majesty, that the memorial which your Ambassador hath presented to their High Mightinesses on the 21st of last month,2 hath touched them very sensibly; and that they find...
Date: 26 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Lord Sandwich has the honour to inform your Majesty that he came to town yesterday in order to pay his duty to your Majesty this day, but on his arrival at the Admiralty was met by the melancholly account of the death of his son at Lisbon, which will prevent his attending to recieve your Majesty's Commands till Sunday next.
As your Majesty does not disapprove of being troubled with the sight of...
Date: 10 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Your Majestys great goodness in mentioning to me some things that have been thrown out, intimating that it has been hinted that the Naval Department has not been so expeditious in the equipment of the Southern expedition as they might have been, will I hope incline you to forgive the liberty I take in explaining that matter in which I think your Majesty has been in some part misinformed.
When the...
Date: 11 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Lord Sandwich has the honour to inform your Majesty that a thought has occurred to him that a large number of Transports may be procured at Hamburgh, which would aid us exceedingly, add greatly to the dispatch & be particularly convenient for the embarkation of the foreign troops at Stadt and Ritz-buttell. The Hamburgh Ships are five [sic fine] large Vessels of the Collier sort, and I believe...
Date: 12 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Lord North has the honour of troubling his Majesty with this note to inform him that Lord Sandwich has consented with great good humour, & readiness to appoint Lord Howe Commander of the Fleet, giving a separate command to Adl Shuldham of the Fleet in the River & Gulph of St Lawrence. Lord Sandwich having just left Ld North, & being upon the point of attending his Majesty at St James'...
Date: 28 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Lord George Germain has the honor of sending your Majesty the Letters he has received from Sir George Collier, tho' probably your Majesty will have received from Lord Sandwich an account of the very spirited and meritorious behaviour of Sir George Collier and of the Captain of the Flora.2
Date: 21 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
As Sir George Collier in his letter to Ld Sandwich expressed a wish that the rebel flag should be laid at your Majesty's feet, Ld Sandwich takes the liberty now to send it, not having it in his possession, when he troubled your Majesty yesterday.
The flag was hoisted at the foretopmast head, & seems to be a sort of broad pendant rather than a flag.2
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9